Bombarding the customer.

I often post on this blog about things that I find shocking as a Brit living abroad.

If it’s not about rudeness
or inappropriate visuals
it’s about marketing departments unknowingly putting their foot in it.

For more, see the Cultural Hotpot posts.

Well, this time something in reverse.

If you’re German, would this make a shiver go up your spine if you saw it in an English shop? The English obviously don’t think twice about it.

Blitz is now an English word, apparently. And the good news – only a minority would relate this back to the second world war. Which is why I saw this in Sainsbury’s supermarket, shouting out among other loud placards.